The United States will no longer require international travelers to provide contact tracing information prior to flying to the United States, and that’s a change that seems pretty logical to me.
Specifically, with this rule, all inbound international air travelers to the United States had to provide contact tracing information within 72 hours of their flight’s departure. So this could be done through the booking management function, during online check-in, or at the airport.
Airlines had to keep this information on file for 30 days, and transmit it to the CDC upon request. As it was described at the time, “the purpose of collecting this information is to identify and locate passengers who may have been exposed to a person with a communicable disease for public health follow-up.”
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
